Is the MBA really comparable to a top-10 business school?

Yes! In an independent academic study, Smartly users performed better than MBA students from HBS, Stanford, Wharton, and Fuqua in a test of accounting, and performed as well as the MBA students in a test of finance. While there will be benefits to a traditional physical school including the in-person interactions among professors and students and the collaborative project-based assignments that are hard to emulate perfectly online, we are proud that the quality of the instruction rivals that of the top-10 business schools worldwide.